| Research | |
| 2009 | Nominated for the Best Paper Award in ACM International Workshop on Social Media for the paper titled "Image Tag Clarity: In Search of Visual-Representative Tags for Social Images" (3 out of 12 accepted papers were nominated). |
| 2008 | Ranked second most prolific author in Data and Knowledge Engineering Journal (for the period of 1985 - 2007) by Scopus, ScienceDirect, and Web of Science sources. |
| 2008 | The paper titled "Mapping, indexing and querying of MPEG-7 descriptors in RDBMS with IXMDB" (2007) was considered as one of the most representative paper in Data and Knowledge Engineering Journal in the area of MPEG-7. |
| 2005 | Certificate of Excellence in DEXA 2005 for the paper titled "Detecting Semantically Correct Changes to Relevant Unordered Hidden Web Data". The paper was ranked 1 out of 390 submissions. |
| 2004 | "Efficient Recursive XML Query Processing Using Relational Database Systems" (with S Prakash, S Madria) was selected as one of the top 6 papers in ER 2004 |
| 2004 | Best Interdisciplinary Paper Award (with Q Zhao, M Mohania, Y Kambayashi) in ACM CIKM 2004 for the paper titled "Discovering Frequently Changing Structures from Historical Structural Deltas of Unordered XML". |
| Graduate Students (Research) | |
| 2006 | ACM Student Travel Award (Q Zhao) in ACM SIGKDD 2006 for the paper titled "Event Detection from Evolution of Click-Through Data". |
| 2005 | ACM Student Travel Award (E Leonardi) in ACM CIKM 2005 for the paper titled "Detecting Changes on Unordered XML Documents Using Relational Databases: A Schema-Conscious Approach" |
| 2004 | Distinguished Hyperion Student Travel Award (Q Zhao) in ACM CIKM 2004 for the paper titled "Discovering Frequently Changing Structures from Historical Structural Deltas of Unordered XML" |
| Teaching & Others | |
| 2008 | 25th Edition Silver Anniversary Edition of Marquis Who’s Who in the World |
| 2006 | Gold Award in URECA (Undergraduate Research Opportunity on Campus) for the Research Poster Competition in 2006 |
| 2005 | Nominated for the Excellence in Teaching Award for contributions in teaching |
| 2004 | Nominated for the Teacher of the Year Award for contributions in teaching |
| 2003 | Outstanding Academic Staff (Top 5.5%) for 2003 based on contributions made in teaching, research, and administrative work |
| 2003 | Nominated for the Teacher of the Year Award for contributions in teaching during 2001 - 2003 |
| 2003 | Lecturer of the Year Award for Year 1 course for 2002-2003 (Voted by the students) |
| 2002 | Outstanding Academic Staff (Top 5.5%) for 2002 based on contributions made in teaching, research, and administrative work |